Maureen Aitken - Author Bio

Maureen Aitken’s short-story collection, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, received a Kirkus star, the Nilsen Prize, and the Foreword Review INDIE Gold Prize for General Fiction. It was reissued in September, 2025 by Wayne State University Press. Her stories have earned a Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant, a Loft Mentor Award, an award from Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. The book was a finalist in the Minnesota Book Awards. Her stories have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner and New Letters. Most recently, she was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize.

Maureen Aitken has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, and Hamline University.